sonata company profile - durgajobs.com

www.durgajobs.com , continuous job updates for every hour

www.durgajobs.com , Sonata Exam Cracking KIT

Sonata Company Profile

Sonata Software is a leading provider of IT consulting and software

services globally. Combining unparalleled experience, domain expertise, best practices and comprehensive capabilities across various industries

and business functions, Sonata collaborates with customers to help them

effectively address their operational challenges and grow their businesses

stronger.

Headquartered in Bangalore, India, and with a customer base spread

across the globe, you will find Sonata offices in the US, Europe, Middle-

East and the Asia-Pacific. With a broad set of capabilities and a proven

Global Delivery Model, Sonata is poised to be the perfect partner of global firms in their outsourcing initiatives. It bring together a unique

combination of breadth of capabilities, strong management focus and

flexibility in engagement required to make their customer relationships a

success.

Sonata's services range from IT Consulting to Product Engineering

Services, Application Development, Application Management, Managed

Testing, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure Management, Packaged Applications and Travel Solutions. Their partnerships with global leaders

enable them to work on the latest technologies that Sonata leverage to

ensure enhanced business efficiencies for their customers. Their

proficiency and commitment, combined with their partners’ strength and knowledge, makes them a trusted organization to work with.

Contact:

Sonata Software Ltd.

APS Trust Building, Bull Temple Road

Bangalore 560019, India

Tel : +91-80-3097 1999



SONATA PAPER ON 19th MAY 2008

Sonata Whole Test Paper and Interview.. on 19th may,2008.

APTITUDE ROUND: In this round they have given 50 questions which you have to answer in

12 minutes. In this round the most important thing is speed and accuracy.

You should not waste even a second after you are given the paper. Some

are multiple choice questions and some are fill in the blank type. You will

be given an answer sheet where you have to mark your answer for multiple choice questions and write the answer for fill in the blank type

questions.

1. General Mathematics (Like calculating costs of items from given data say 1pen this much 220 pens how much? identifying the odd one, Simple

calculations etc.)

2. English : Words often confused(Why because they will give two words and ask us to identify the relation between them whether they are

synonyms, antonyms or no relation etc), Idioms and Phrases(They will

give a sentence and ask you to choose the meaning of the sentence from

the given four options.).

3. Analytical: Syllogism based questions (Simple ones), Coding etc. Bits

like Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh then they will give four options; we have

to select one option which is similar in nature as above given statement. Here the relation between the two words is Hyderabad is capital city of

Andhra Pradesh.

Technical Written( C/C++):

30 bits will be given and you have to answer them in 30 minutes. All are of multiple choice type .Our paper covered bits from different areas in c

and c++. I remembered only a few bits which

A bit on macros #define cube(x) x*x*x. You have to replace this code and follow the order of execution

1) #define cube(x) x*x*x

main()

{ int a;

a=6/cube(6)*6;

printf(“\n a=%d”a);

}



What is the output of the above program?

Ans:216. (6/6*6*6*6 -> 1*6*6*6 ->216). Here order of precedence should be considered. Just substitute that macro instead of cube(6) as

6*6*6 but don’t directly substitute 216 in the statement. Refer

Yashavanth Kanethkar’s Test Ur C skills .U can find a lot of bits of this

kind.

3) strstr is a function belonging to which header file

<String.h>

4) A bit on priority of operators. You will be given four choices with different priorites from which you have to select the statement with

correct priority.

Arithmetic operators>Relational Operatoirs>Logical

Operators>Assignment Operators.

5) A bit on switch case which is little tricky. Please refer Test your c skills by yashavanth Kanethkars text chapter 2:

Control Structures.

6) A few bits on pointers .Same refer Test your c skills.

7) Difference between malloc () and calloc() statements.

8) A bit on Command line arguments.Its very easy one.He has a given a command line argument and asked us to give the no.of arguments

passed. (Refer test your c skills.)

myprog 1 2

main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

…….

……

…….. }

How many arguments are passed to main.

1)2 2)3 3)10 4)8.

Ans.Opt2. myprogram,1,2 are the three arguments that are passed to main.

9) A bit on scope and life time of variables(Refer Let us C by yashavanth

kanetkar text book chapter: Storage classes in c for better understanding ).



10)A bit on array int array[5]={1,2,3};

Then what is a[4]

Ans:0 Why because a[0]=1,a[1]=2,a[2]=3 The remaining are automatically

taken as 0.So a[3],a[4] are taken as 0.

11)A bit on for loop. You should clearly understand the syntax and semantic of for loop to solve that bit.

12)Which of the following occupies less memory (Consider the platform as

Windows.So char-1 byte,int – 2 bytes ,float -4 bytes) 1)some structure will be given struct a{int a,b;float c;};

2)union b{int a,b;float c;}

3)char a[10];

4)int a,b,c,d; Ans:

Opt1 occupies (2*2+4)=8 bytes

Option 2 occupies only 4 bytes as Union allocates memory for the largest data type in its members .In this case memory for float c is allocated.

Option 3 occupies 10 bytes.

Option 4 occupies 8 bytes.

Opt 2. Is the answer.

13)A bit on enum.

14)main() {

int n=3;

If(n=5)

printf (“Hyderabad”); else

printf(“Vijayawada”); //Of course it is not exactly given as Hyderabad and

Vijayawada bit something else .

which I didn’t remember }

What is the output of the program? 1) Hyderabad 2) Vijayawada 3) Error …………..

Ans) Opt 1 Why because we used n=5 here which is a non Zero value i.e.

TRUE, Hence if (TRUE) then First statement will be executed. Hence

Hyderabad is printed.



15)There is a bit like this

main()

{ int a=10,b=0,c=5

If ( a && b || c)

printf(“This is X”);

else

printf(“This is Y”); }

Output: This is X.

Since a&&b yields False .But False || True. Hence the whole statement

becomes true.

(a=10 is a non zero value and hence true,b is 0 and hence false,c is 5

which is a non zero value and hence is true. T&&F=F and F||T=T.Hence the statement becomes true.)

16)

main() {

int a=10,b=11,c;

c=a&b;

printf(“The value of c is %d”,c); }

What is the output:

1)10 2)20 3)0 4)ERROR.

Ans.Opt.1

Since The operator used above is a bit wise operator. Hence we have to

convert a and b into bits(Binary format).

a=10-------->1010 b=11-------->1011

And

a&b----------à1010. The value is 10.

A bit on Inheritance concept.

A bit on Access specifier’s concept.

A bit on order of creation of Constructors for objects. Always objects are

created from base class to derived class.

A bit on Destructors. A bit on virtual functions.



But if you go through the theory in above topics you can easily solve the

bits. To solve these bits you need clear understanding of above concepts

like Inheritance, Access specifiers, Constructors, Destructors, Virtual functions. C++ bits are relatively very easier than c. To practice c++ bits

please refer Test your c++ skills by yashavanth Kanethkar.

General English: Its very easy.30 Questions will be given and u have to solve them in 20

minutes.

Fill in the blanks (like prepositions, articles) etc will be given.

Fill in the blank with appropriate word will be given.

5 bits will be given of the following type:

Eg1: In front of Office room you will find this:

Leave your footwear outside 2) Walk slowly 3) No parking ……… Choose the right option.

Ans: Opt1.

There is letter writing: Write an e-mail to your superior requesting him to grant leave for two days because of your personal reasons. Refer some

formal letters in net. You will get an Idea on them. It’s very easy.

Paragraph writing: You must write at least 10 lines on one topic from the

given 5 topics (choice 1/5). The topics are 1) Integrity in workspace 2)5 qualities an employee should have. I remembered only these two topics.

For English, you don’t need any kind of preparation if you are good at

basics. This is all about second round.18 people cleared this round.

Group Discussion: “Friends everybody should be given a chance to speak. Now its my time to

share my views”. If you are cool you can get a lot of points in your mind,

otherwise you will forget what you know. Speak confidently with a smiling

face. Thats it. If you have these points in mind you can get through this round.

After GD 10 members were selected for Interview. Iam the only student

from our college.

Technical Interview:

If you are from Non IT branch, It is enough to have knowledge in

c,c++,os and all your core subjects. But students from computer science

background need to be thorough with all our subjects (cse related).



Tech Questions:

Question: What all did you learnt in your Engineering? (Common question to everybody.)

Physics: Some problems on Kinematics.

Eg: If a stone and a stop watch are given to you and asked to find the

height of the tower, how will you find. Ans. Leave the stone from the top of the tower and calculate the time

taken to reach ground.

S=ut+ (1/2)at2

For a freely falling body, initial velocity u=0,t=time taken to reach ground(That u found using stop watch.) and acceleration a=g(For a freely

falling body).

This way u can find height (S).

A few more problems like this which you can solve easily. Be thorough with all the formulae in Kinematics.[other equations are v2-u2=2as,

v=u+at.]

Chemistry: Some questions on periodic table. Just refer Periodic table and identify the characteristics of elements. (Don’t go in depth.)

What are reversible and irreversible reactions? Give an example.

Don’t get panic. Even if u doesn’t remember it is not a big problem. Say u

doesn’t remember. Or Say “Sorry”. They will just see your confidence while answering these questions.

Mathematics: Some questions on permutations and combinations,

Probability. Engineering Drawing:

What is orthogonal view?

What is Isometric view?

EDC: What are semiconductors? What are p-type semiconductors and what are n-type semiconductors?

Why Germanium and silicon are used in semiconductors? What is valency

of silicon?

DLD: Truth tables of NAND, NOR, EX-OR, AND, OR.

Gates for NAND, NOR, EX-OR, AND, OR.

If possible go through all the basic definitions in Basic Electronics.(capacitor,Inductor,Current,Voltage,Resistance,Transformer,Tr

ansistor etc.).



C Language: What do you know about C language? I spent almost 10-15

minutes in answering this question.

Write any sorting algorithm? You may be asked to write any sorting algorithm. (Insertion Sort,

Selection Sort, Bubble Sort, Shell sort, Quick Sort etc.).What is the best

sorting algorithm and why?

Write a searching technique in c?

What are the differences between Header files and Library functions? Library functions consist of executable code where as Header files just

consist of Declarations.

Write a program to concatenate two strings without using built in

functions. (It is better if u prepare to write code using pointers for all library functions in strings. Like strcat, strcpy, strrev, strcmp etc).

What is portability?

What is difference between c and c++.

Did you write any program in c which you felt proud of????

Try to write any application. Don’t say simple programs like palindrome,

abundant nos, perfect no, deficient no, even or odd, prime no, Armstrong

no, strong no. etc if you are from computers background.

Write a program to print the prime numbers between 1 to 100. (The code

must be efficient.) I used two loops.Print 2 first.Dont check the condition for even

numbers(as 2 is the only even prime ).Check only for odd numbers.Hint:

for(i=3;i<=99;i+=2)

for(j=2;j<=i/2;j++).

DBMS: What is DBMS?

What is Normalization? Why is Normalization done? What are different

Normal Forms and explain each. Small queries in sql.(Go through the basics in SQL.)

Software Engineering: What is Software Engineering?

What is SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)? And what are the stages in it.

Explain each stage.



What are different process models? Which is the best process model and

why?

What is static testing and what is dynamic testing?

Java: What are the differences between c++ and Java?

Where is Java most useful?

What is JVM? What is platform dependency?

What are scripting languages? Be thorough with definitions in them (html?

xml? etc).

UNIX commands: If you are from computer science background, you must be thorough with UNIX commands.

One of my friends were asked commands in UNIX, She was able to

answer only a few commands but still got selected. Don’t get panic when you are unable to answer in some area. It is better to know UNIX

commands.

Computer Organization: Explain memory management?

Operating Systems: Be thorough with all the basic definitions

What is OS?

What is a deadlock? What is a Semaphore?

What is paging?

What are different scheduling algorithms? Explain?

What is cache memory? What is virtual memory?

What is a thread?

What is multithreading, multitasking?

Differences between Windows and Linux?

Projects: If you have done any projects. They will ask you to explain.

They will ask the reasons for which you have chosen this

platform(c,c++,.net or java) to do the project.

HR Round:

Why should we recruit you? (Common question asked to everybody)

Tell me about yourself? Tell me about your family background?

If you are from non IT branch-Then they will ask you “why do you want to

join in a software company.”?Be careful while answering this question.

Don’t say that salaries are high.

You can say like this-- As software field requires people who are more



innovative and who are good problem solvers and who can accustom to

changes, Iam sure that Iam having all these qualities and can easily learn

the required technical skills for being a software Engineer.(One way of answering the question).

One thing I would like to mention is don’t try to bluff the interviewer.

When You don’t know something, Say sincerely “sorry”. Be cool throughout the interview. Make some study on the company before

attending the interview. Listen carefully to the power point presentation

given by the HR during the pre placement talk in your college. Note down

the points as you can’t remember all the points till the interview. These points will help you to answer some HR questions. Don’t put what you

don’t know in your resume. Be thorough with your resume.



Sonata Software Aptitude Test

1. Last month of an year

(a) January (b) February

(c) December (d) November

2. Select the odd one

(a) January (b) February

(c) Wednesday (d) November

3. Select the antonym of capture from the following

(a) attack (b) Release

(c) condemn (d) None of the above

4. Find the antonym of autumn

(a) Spring (b) Winter

(c) Summer (d) None of the above

5. One skirt requires 3.75 yards of cloth. How many skirts you can make from 45 yards?

Ans: 12 skirts

6. How can you make a square from two triangles?

7. Is the meaning of Client and Customer,

(a) same (b) contradictory

(c) no relation



8. Is the meaning of It's and Its,

(a) same (b)contradictory

(c) no relation

9. Is the meaning of Canvas and Canvass,


(c) no relation

10. Is the meaning of Ingenious and Ingenuous, (a) same (b) contradictory

(c) no relation

11. Is the meaning of Credible and Credulous,


(c) no relation

12. Select the odd one out.

(a) 1/4 (b) 1/3

(c) 1/6 (d) 1/18

13. Select the least from the following.

(a) 0.99 (b) 1

(c) 81 (d) 0.333

14. Find the next number in the series 1, 0.5, 0.25, 0.125

Ans: 0.0625

15. One dollar is saved in one month. Then how much dollar is saved in one day?

Ans: 1/30 =0.0333$



16. Y catches 5 times more fishes than X. If total number of fishes caught

by X and Y is 48, then number of fishes caught by X?

Ans: 8

17. Y catches 5 times more fishes than X. If total number of fishes caught

by X and Y is 42, then number of fishes caught by X?

Ans: 7

18. If a train covers 600m in 0.5 seconds, how long it will cover in 10

seconds?

Ans: 3000m = 3km

19. The girl's age is twice that of boy, if the boy is four years old. After four years the age of the girl is

Ans: 12 years

20. Sister's age is twice than that of the brother. If the brother's age is

six, what is the sister's age after two years?

Ans: 14 Yrs.

21. Two lemons cost 10 cents. Then one and a half dozen cost

Ans: 90 cents

22. A clock is late by 1 minute 27 seconds in a month. Then how much

will it be late in 1 day?

Ans: 2.9 seconds

23. Which of the following figures together will make a triangle?

Ans: a,b,c,d

24. Make a square by drawing only one line

Ans: line 2-5, square 2-3-4-5-2



25. Which of the following is the odd one? crew, constellation, companion,

league, participants.

Ans: companion

26. Opposite of Remote?

(a) Far (b) Near

(c) Huge (d) Village

27. Statement A: All great men are ridiculous; Statement B: I am ridiculous;

Inference: I am a great man;

(a) True (b) False

(c) Not clear

28. Statement: Normal children are active; Inference: All children are active;

(a) True (b) false

(c) Uncertain

29. Next number in the series 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 ?

Ans: 1/16

30. In 6 seconds a light flashes once. In one hour how many times I

flash?

Ans: 601 times

31. At 20% discount, a cycle is sold at a selling price of 2500 Rs. What is

the actual price?

Ans: Rs. 3125



32. Statement A: A & B have same age;

Statement B: B is younger than C;

Inference: A is younger than C;

(a) True (b) False

(c) Uncertain

33. All chickens lay eggs (True/False)

Ans: False

34. A invests $12000, B invests $8000, C invests $6000 and they got a

profit of $1200. How much share A got more than B and C?

Ans: 2/13 and 3/13



Sample Technical Paper

1. Point out error, if any, in the following program

main()

{

int i=1;

switch(i)

{

case 1:

printf("\nRadioactive cats have 18 half-lives");

break;

case 1*2+4:

printf("\nBottle for rent -inquire within");

break;

}

}

Ans. No error. Constant expression like 1*2+4 are acceptable in

cases of a switch.

2.

Point out the error, if any, in the following

program

main()

{

int a=10,b;

a>= 5 ? b=100 : b=200;

printf("\n%d",b);

}

Ans. lvalue required in function main(). The second assignment should be



written in parenthesis as follows:

a>= 5 ? b=100 : (b=200);

3. In the following code, in which order the functions would be called?

a= f1(23,14)*f2(12/4)+f3();

a) f1, f2, f3 b) f3, f2, f1

c) The order may vary from compiler to compiler d) None of the above

4. What would be the output of the following program?

main()

{

int i=4;

switch(i)

{

default:

printf("\n A mouse is an elephant built by the

Japanese");

case 1:

printf(" Breeding rabbits is a hair raising experience");

break;

case 2:

printf("\n Friction is a drag");

break;

case 3:

printf("\n If practice make perfect, then nobody's perfect");

}

}

a) A mouse is an elephant built by the Japanese b) Breeding rabbits is a

hare raising experience

c) All of the above d) None of the above



5. What is the output of the following program?

#define SQR(x) (x*x)

main()

{

int a,b=3;

a= SQR(b+2);

printf("%d",a);

}

a) 25 b) 11 c) error d) garbage value

6. In which line of the following, an error would be

reported?

1. #define CIRCUM(R) (3.14*R*R);

2. main()

3. {

4. float r=1.0,c;

5. c= CIRCUM(r);

6. printf("\n%f",c);

7. if(CIRCUM(r))==6.28)

8. printf("\nGobbledygook");

9. }

a) line 1 b) line 5 c) line 6 d) line 7

7. What is the type of the variable b in the following declaration?

#define FLOATPTR float*

FLOATPTR a,b;

a) float b) float pointer c) int d) int pointer



8. In the following code;

#include<stdio.h>

main()

{

FILE *fp;

fp= fopen("trial","r");

}

fp points to:

a) The first character in the file.

b) A structure which contains a "char" pointer which points to the first

character in the file.

c) The name of the file. d) None of the

above.

9. We should not read after a write to a file without an intervening

call to fflush(), fseek() or rewind() < TRUE/FALSE>

Ans. True

10. If the program (myprog) is run from the command line as myprog

1 2 3 , What would be the output?

main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

int i;

for(i=0;i<argc;i++)

printf("%s",argv[i]);

}

a) 1 2 3 b) C:\MYPROG.EXE 1 2 3

c) MYP d) None of the above



11. If the following program (myprog) is run from the command line

as myprog 1 2 3, What would be the output?


{

int i,j=0;

for(i=0;i<argc;i++)

j=j+ atoi(argv[i]);

printf("%d",j);

}

a) 1 2 3 b) 6 c) error d) "123"


as myprog monday tuesday wednesday thursday,

What would be the output?


{

while(--argc >0)

printf("%s",*++argv);

}

a) myprog monday tuesday wednesday thursday b) monday tuesday

wednesday thursday

c) myprog tuesday thursday d) None of the

above

13. In the following code, is p2 an integer or an integer pointer?

typedef int* ptr

ptr p1,p2;

Ans. Integer pointer

14. Point out the error in the following program

main()



{

const int x;

x=128;

printf("%d",x);

}

Ans. x should have been initialized where it is declared.


main()

{

int y=128;

const int x=y;

printf("%d",x);

}

a) 128 b) Garbage value c) Error d) 0

16. What is the difference between the following

declarations?

const char *s;

char const *s;

Ans. No difference


main()

{

char near * near *ptr1;

char near * far *ptr2;

char near * huge *ptr3;

printf("%d %d %d",sizeof(ptr1),sizeof(ptr2),sizeof(ptr3));

}

a) 1 1 1 b) 1 2 4 c) 2 4 4 d) 4 4 4




as myprog friday tuesday sunday,


main(int argc, char*argv[])

{

printf("%c",**++argv);

}

a) m b) f c) myprog d) friday



What would be the

output?


{

printf("%c",*++argv[1]);

}

a) r b) f c) m d) y





{

while(sizeofargv)

printf("%s",argv[--sizeofargv]);

}

a) myprog friday tuesday sunday b) myprog friday tuesday

c) sunday tuesday friday myprog d) sunday tuesday

friday




main ()

{

int a=10;

void f();

a=f();

printf("\n%d",a);

}

void f()

{

printf("\nHi");

}

Ans. The program is trying to collect the value of a "void" function into

an integer variable.

22. In the following program how would you print 50 using p?

main()

{

int a[]={10, 20, 30, 40, 50};

char *p;

p= (char*) a;

}

Ans. printf("\n%d",*((int*)p+4));

23. Would the following program compile?

main()

{

int a=10,*j;

void *k;

j=k=&a;



j++;

k++;

printf("\n%u%u",j,k);

}

a) Yes b) No, the format is incorrect

c) No, the arithmetic operation is not permitted on void

pointers

d) No, the arithmetic operation is not permitted on pointers

24. According to ANSI specifications which is the correct way of

declaring main() when it receives command line arguments?

a) main(int argc, char *argv[]) b) main(argc,argv) int argc; char *argv[];

c) main() {int argc; char *argv[]; } d) None of the above

25. What error would the following function give on compilation?

f(int a, int b)

{

int a;

a=20;

return a;

}

a) missing parenthesis in the return statement b) The function should be

declared as int f(int a, int b)

c) redeclaration of a d) None of the

above


main()

{

const char *fun();

*fun()='A';

}



const char *fun()

{

return "Hello";

}

Ans. fun() returns to a "const char" pointer which cannot be modified


main()

{

const int x=5;

int *ptrx;

ptrx=&x;

*ptrx=10;

printf("%d",x);

}

a) 5 b) 10 c) Error d) Garbage value

28. A switch statement cannot include

a) constants as arguments b) constant expression as

arguments

c) string as an argument d) None of the above

29. How long the following program will run?

main()

{

printf("\nSonata Software");

main();

}

a) infinite loop b) until the stack overflows


30. On combining the following statements, you will get char*p;



p=malloc(100);

a) char *p= malloc(100) b) p= (char*)malloc(100)


31. What is the output of the following program?

main()

{

int n=5;

printf("\nn=%*d",n,n);

}

a) n=5 b) n=5 c) n= 5 d) error

sonata company profile - durgajobs.com

Documents